In a showcase of works from the last five years, Genevieve Cohn brings the mythology of her paintings to the Boston City Hall Gallery for her first ever solo exhibition in the city, Time Stretches Slow.
Cohn’s practice is grounded in both the literal and the imaginative, weaving together histories of women’s labor, storytelling, and shared ritual. Her paintings depict collaborative communities of women engaged in work, ceremony, and quiet reflection—scenes that feel simultaneously mythological and deeply rooted in lived experience.
Drawing on sources as varied as the Women’s Land Army of the World Wars, separatist communes, fairy tales, and works of literary fiction, Cohn creates a visual language that bridges past and present, suggesting that women’s collective lives reverberate across time. Whether depicted in acts of construction, care, or reflection, Cohn's work exuse a warm that invites visitors to pause and to contemplate how the intertwined threads of identity, imagination, and collective purpose shape both personal and communal histories. With every painting functioning as a vignette in her body of work, Time Stretches Slow traces not only the expansion of Cohn’s artistic universe but also her shifting meditations on femininity, resilience, and collective life.
The exhibition is on view from August 4th to October 24th at Boston City Hall in the Mayor's Office Gallery. The Mayor's Office Gallery is located on the 5th floor of Boston City Hall near the south elevator bank and the entrance to the Mayor's Office.
Courtesy of the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, City of Boston
Boston City Hall
5th Floor
1 City Hall Square
Boston, MA 02201-2029
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday / 9am - 5pm
Exhibition on view August 4th through October 24th
September 26, 2025
